Posted: 8/18/2013 7:09:04 AM EDT
This is how I chose to remember it:
OCIR was right next door 
OC was a really cool place |
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closed down now isn't it? that's where my wife grew up. we drove by the exit the other day... New homes are very close, on the other side of Irvine Blvd, but not actually on the base property - from what I can tell. Miss the annual airshow and seeing the FA-18s. The Orange County Great Park will take up a big chunk of the old base, and there will be housing developments eventually too. |
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F-4 Phantoms! March lives on as an Air Force Reserve Center with the refueling mission still on-going. The F-16's fly in every so often bringing a big smile to my face as I hear them overhead. Quoted:
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Long long gone. March was a cool place too. March lives on as an Air Force Reserve Center with the refueling mission still on-going. The F-16's fly in every so often bringing a big smile to my face as I hear them overhead. I drive by March frequently on the 215. Haven't yet had the time to stop and go to the museum. If I'm not mistaken, March was the location of the first Bob Hope show for servicemen ever, at the beginning of WWII. ETA, yup, 1941, USO show. |
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Our shop is off lake forest and was under the flight path.When i started alot of our customers knew that so when the secratary would say hold on plane coming in they would stop talking til it went by then resume.The jets came in pretty low it was cool to see.Some days they were were getting alot of flight time in.
We are also working on alot of the new homes going up around the base including the ones mentioned o nthe other side of irvine blvd. |